hateful

adjective

hate·ful | \ ˈhāt-fəl

Definition of hateful

1 : full of hate : malicious

2 : deserving of or arousing hate

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Examples of hateful in a Sentence

the girl's classmates were bullying her online, sending her hateful e-mails and text messages

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On a spring morning in Menlo Park, more than 30 senior staffers gathered in Facebook’s Building 23 to discuss several meaty topics, including how the network should categorize hateful language. — Michal Lev-ram, Fortune, "Facebook's Fix-It Team," 22 May 2018 Still, people post millions of unambiguously hateful posts to Facebook. — Casey Newton, The Verge, "Facebook’s first content moderation report finds terrorism posts up 73 percent this year," 15 May 2018 Most hateful posts were ignored or only shared within a small echo chamber of similar accounts. — Gaia Vince, CNN, "Why nice people become mean online," 3 Apr. 2018 DeAysia noted that the students made copies of the offensive and hateful Snapchat post, pasting the image on large canvases to emphasize their point. — De Elizabeth, Teen Vogue, "SUNY Plattsburgh Students Protest Racist Snapchat Photo," 18 Feb. 2018 As for the criminal mastermind played by Moller, let’s just say that the ghost of Alan Rickman’s majestically hateful Hans Gruber is not losing any sleep. — Ty Burr, BostonGlobe.com, "Dwayne Johnson goes high, very high, in ‘Skyscraper’," 12 July 2018 But Stine Seed said the farmers have failed to cite a single incident showing that the defendants showed hateful or discriminatory conduct. — Kristine Phillips, chicagotribune.com, "Black soybean farmers say they were deliberately sold defective seeds because of their race," 12 July 2018 The nuance of irony is lost when your face becomes closely associated, however jokingly, with hateful opinions. — Kathryn Lindsay, refinery29.com, "Millie Bobby Brown's Anti-Bullying Speech Isn't The Whole Story," 19 June 2018 Soon, the restaurant and other establishments across the country also named the Red Hen were receiving hateful messages and even death threats. — Amy B Wang, Washington Post, "Bookstore owner defends calling police on woman who told Steve Bannon he was ‘a piece of trash’," 8 July 2018

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